Antique Print-THREE GRACES-PALM-GROVE-Scotto-1572-1610

Description The Three Graces in a Palm Grove. Made by after an anonymous artist. Medium: Woodcut & Block on hand laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 12.5 x 12.5 cm (4.92 x 4.92 inch). Image size: 12 x 12 cm. (4.72 x 4.72 inch). Condition: good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. THREE GRACES-PALM-GROVE | PCO-C21-21 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Source: unknown, to be determined. Reference: LC/NAF, 19 ag. 2013 (enc.: Erede di Girolamo Scotto). Biography engraver: Girolamo Scotto (Hieronymus Scotus; also Gerolamo) (c.1505-1572) was an Italian printer, composer, businessman and bookseller of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice. He was the most influential member of the firm of Venetian printers, the House of Scotto, which existed from the late 15th century until 1615. At its peak in the 1560s, the Scotto firm under Girolamo was one of the preeminent publishing firms of Europe, producing volumes on law, scholasticism, philosophy, medicine, theology, and ancient literature in addition to music. Only the firm of Gardano produced more books of music in the 16th century than the House of Scotto under Girolamo; over half of Scotto’s publications, 409 out of approximately 800 in total, were books of music. Girolamo Scotto’s successors were first his nephew Melchiorre and later Baldassarre’s son.